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Recliner[_3_] · May 7th 17, 12:20 AM posted to uk.transport.london

Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\05\02 22:59, wrote:

Phew , I half expected to open that and find that it had been
demolished by an errant road sweeper or worse been uprooted and swiped
for some town or city's twee improved pedestrian area with newly laid
cobbles and reproduction Edwardian lampposts till I noticed the 2014
date.

Either a thing looks nice or it doesn't. Why was it okay for Edwardians
to make things that looked nice but it's not okay for us? The people who
make beauty in the age of ugliness deserve praise, not criticism.

Fashions change, of course. For example, the late Victorian Tower Bridge is
now highly regarded as one of London's icons, but was much criticised when
built. Less well known is that the key engineer who worked on it was
Brunel. No, not I K Brunel, but his son, Henry Marc Brunel.